| It's not necessarily hardware-specific, as the retail version of OS X will install on any Macintosh that's capable of running OS X.
The OS X discs that actually ship with a computer, though, may have proprietary drivers and/or other software that's not compatible with other Macs, or that are required for operation of the specific computer they shipped with. It's also related to the version of OS X you install -- if, for say, a MacBook shipped with OS X 10.4.9, then trying to install any OS X prior to 10.4.9 (10.4.8, say) will not work. The OS X version that ships with the computer is the minimum OS version you can run on that computer as well.
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